County quarter sessions, iv. 397 rate, i. 133; iii. 191, n. Coursing match, iv. 355, n. Court, archdeacon's, iii. 440 barmote, iii. 464, n. baron, i. 220; iii. 391; iv. 572 christian, i. 67-see ECCLESI- county, i. 132, 302; iii. 393-402, 706-see COUNTY COURT. customary, i. 225 ecclesiastical, iii. 436, 452 for divorce and matrimonial forest, iii. 471, n. for the stannaries, iii. 466 instance, iii. 453, n. leet, iii. 357, 360; iv. 401, 572 of appeal in chancery, iii. 427 ; of arches, iii. 11, 441, 456 of chancery, iii. 405, 414; iv. 31 of criminal appeal, iv. 526 of divorce, ii. 254, 292 of equity, iii. 405, 414; iv. 31 chamber, iii. 429 of gaol delivery, iv. 393 of hustings, iii. 467, n. of justice under Alfred, iii. 389. of lord high steward, iv. 382, 502 of orphans, ii. 327 of oyer and terminer, iv. 393 Court of parliament, iv. 379 of piedpoudre, iii. 471, n.; iv. of policies of insurance, iii. of prize, ii. 18 of probate, ii. 199, 229; iii. 435. of sewers, iii. 461 of Star Chamber, iv. 388 of the coroner, iv. 403 of the duchy chamber of Lan- of the lord steward of the house- of the marshalsea, iii. 471, n.; of the sheriff of London, iii. 467, n. of the sheriff's tourn, iv. 401 Courts at Westminster, iii. 411 of criminal jurisdiction, iv. 370 435 of great session in Wales, i. 87; of justice, independence of, ii. 491 of private or special jurisdiction, of record, iii. 380, 415, n. of the cinque ports, iii. 464, n. Criminal appeal, iv. 526 conversation, action for, abo- courts, iv. 378-408 Croisades, iv. 584 examination, iii. 638 cases reserved, iv. 526 grants, i. 452. hereditary succession and title to, injuries proceeding from the, iv. injuries affecting the, iv. 72 leases, ii. ib., 555 office, iii. 410; iv. 387 assistant mastership of, prerogative of, ii. 482, 620-623 private estates of, ii. 556 property not rateable, iii. 187, n. revenue of, ii. 548 Custodia legis, goods in, ii. 11 of idiots and lunatics, ii. 530, of offenders, 434, 531 of temporalities of bishoprics, Custom, i. 41, 45, 46, 55 dower by, i. 276 of borough English, i. 55, 57, of gavelkind, i. 55, 57, 217 rules as to validity of, i. 58-61 Customary court of copyholders, i. 225, Darreign continuance, plea puis, iii. 604 presentment, assize of, iii. Dartmoor, convicts at, iii. 240, n. of public fast, &c. ii. 116, 121 Deacon's orders, iii. 27 Dead bodies, refusing to bury, iv. 365 Dead game, ii. 19 Dead man's part, ii. 227 Deaf and dumb, trial of a prisoner, iv. Death, sentence of, iv. 479-see CA- Deaths, registration of, ii. 265; iii. 346 by Jews, Quakers, &c., in an action, iii. 59, 60, in prohibition, iv. 12 of right to be deemed natu- of validity of marriages, ii. on taking office, ii. 643 Declarations, dying, iv. 514 avoidance of, i. 504 cancelling of, i. 505 counterpart of, i. 489 forging, iv. 226 habendum in, i. 492 inconsistent clauses in, i. 509 inter partes, i. 491 must be written or printed, i. 490 premises in a, i. 499 Deed, signing of, i. ib. stamps on, i. 490 to declare or lead uses of, fine or witnesses to a, i. 503 De ejectione firmæ, writ, iii. 508 Deer, property in, ii. 5, 6, n. stealing, iv. 205, n. 410 De estoveriis habendis, writ, ii. 291, n. 452 Defacing coin, iv. 275 Defamation, iii. 494-497 suits for, iii. 445, n. Defamatory libels, iii. 297, n., 495; iv. 3, 39 words, what are, iii. 491 Default, judgment by, iii. 601, 664, 668 Defect of understanding, iv. 107 Defence, equitable, iii. 599, n. of self, of children, &c., iii. Defendant in an action, iii. 586 in quare impedit, iii. 533, in replevin, iii. 707 service on, iii. 588 De la plus belle, dower, i. 276 Deliverance, second, writ of, iii. 709 of declaration, iii. 590, n. of possession, where necessary, of signed bill by attorney, iii. 328 De lunatico inquirendo, writ, ii. 531 Demandant and tenant, iii. 699, n. De mercatoribus, statute, i. 316 Demise, i. 521-523-see LEASE. of sovereign, ii. 407, 431, 498, book, iii. 606 general, iii. 596, n. setting down for argument, special, iii. 596, n., 660 to a declaration, iii. 596 to a plea, iii. 601 to evidence, iii. 646 Denial of Christianity, iv. 286 Denizen, i. 443; ii. 426 Denmark, convention with, iv. 428, n. Deodand, ii. 571–574, 661, n. De odio et atiâ, writ, iv. 18, n. |